Comment by RivieraKid
5 hours ago
Do software engineers here feel threatened by this? I certainly am. I'm surprised that this topic is almost entirely missing in these threads.
5 hours ago
Do software engineers here feel threatened by this? I certainly am. I'm surprised that this topic is almost entirely missing in these threads.
No. It turns into a complete mess without someone that knows what they're doing to steer it. It's an upgrade to autocomplete
theres alot of denial, and people that havent taken a serious look at the ai models
AI is mostly garbage at creating useful abstractions. I'd feel threatened if I was a competitive programmer or IMO kid
No. AI does not work well enough, you still need a person to look on it and CODE. It probably never will, until AGI which probably also in my opinion will never come.
It's a super-special AI tier that can replace developers and other grunts, yet somehow cannot replace managers and C-suite.
It can only replace whoever is not writing a fat cheque to it.
I would feel threatened if I didn't invest in learning how to best use AI
Jevons paradox hints that the situation is not as bleak as it sounds.
I've been in this profession for 32 years now and this is my experience. Every time coding gets easier or cheaper, the response is first to lay off developers but quickly the demand for more software spikes and they need everyone back and more than ever.
When we achieve true AGI we're truly cooked, but it won't just be software developers by definition of AGI, it will be everyone else too. But the last people in the building before they turn the lights out for good will be the software developers.